Diversity or Concentration of Sources in the Management of the Energy Trilemma? The Case of India

Abstract

 Abstract —Energy sources have been crucial for development, but also form the backbone of what is today one of the greatest global challenges. Implementing policies to address simultaneously the three issues of the “energy trilemma” — energy security, energy equity (energy poverty) and environmental sustainability (climate change) — is one of the major challenges for policy makers. Access to and management of countries' natural resources and energy assets have played a central role in national and international politics. This paper examines the influence of the diversity of India's energy matrix on the balance of these three energy issues between 1990-2014. An econometric model confirms that diversity is statistically significant for all other variables. It also shows interesting results when analyzing its effect on each variable individually and on all of them